Effec­tive Altru­ism Grants pro­ject update

ricoh_aficio29 Sep 2017 20:05 UTC
28 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Up­date on En­vi­sion: progress thus far and next steps

aspencer27 Sep 2017 20:51 UTC
6 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Per­sonal thoughts on ca­reers in AI policy and strategy

carrickflynn27 Sep 2017 16:52 UTC
56 points
28 comments18 min readEA link

The AIDS/​malaria puz­zle: bleg

vipulnaik26 Sep 2017 15:55 UTC
6 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Qual­i­ta­tive Com­ments Sum­mary

Tee21 Sep 2017 1:36 UTC
3 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

What do DALYs cap­ture?

Danae_Arroyos20 Sep 2017 21:18 UTC
15 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Get­ting Nu­clear Policy Right Is Hard

Gentzel19 Sep 2017 1:00 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Can a Trans­par­ent Idea Direc­tory re­duce trans­ac­tion costs of new ideas?

astupple18 Sep 2017 17:31 UTC
10 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: De­mo­graph­ics II

Tee18 Sep 2017 15:51 UTC
9 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

S-risk FAQ

Tobias_Baumann18 Sep 2017 8:05 UTC
29 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

2017 LEAN Im­pact Assessment

Richenda17 Sep 2017 0:48 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why Char­i­ties Usu­ally Don’t Differ Astro­nom­i­cally in Ex­pected Cost-Effectiveness

Brian_Tomasik16 Sep 2017 10:40 UTC
94 points
6 comments28 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

How big a deal was the In­dus­trial Revolu­tion?

lukeprog16 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC
31 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

Cap­i­tal­ism and Selfishness

John G. Halstead15 Sep 2017 8:30 UTC
13 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

New Re­port on the Welfare Differ­ences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing

Ajeya14 Sep 2017 10:28 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Three wild spec­u­la­tions from am­a­teur quan­ti­ta­tive macrohistory

lukeprog12 Sep 2017 9:47 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Dona­tion Data

Tee12 Sep 2017 1:29 UTC
11 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

The Tur­ing Test

Ales_Flidr11 Sep 2017 1:20 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ten new 80,000 Hours ar­ti­cles made for the effec­tive al­tru­ist community

80000_Hours7 Sep 2017 2:25 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Is EA Grow­ing? Some EA Growth Met­rics for 2017

Peter Wildeford5 Sep 2017 23:36 UTC
19 points
24 comments4 min readEA link

Which five books would you recom­mend to an 18 year old?

RandomEA5 Sep 2017 21:10 UTC
10 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Ide­olog­i­cal en­g­ineer­ing and so­cial con­trol: A ne­glected topic in AI safety re­search?

Geoffrey Miller1 Sep 2017 18:52 UTC
17 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Cause Area Preferences

Tee1 Sep 2017 14:55 UTC
10 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

Should EAs think twice be­fore donat­ing to GFI?

KevinWatkinson31 Aug 2017 13:50 UTC
1 point
20 comments3 min readEA link

Look­ing at how Su­perfore­cast­ing might im­prove some EA pro­jects re­sponse to Superintelligence

WillPearson29 Aug 2017 22:22 UTC
2 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Com­mu­nity De­mo­graph­ics & Beliefs

Tee29 Aug 2017 18:36 UTC
15 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Distri­bu­tion and Anal­y­sis Methodology

Tee29 Aug 2017 18:31 UTC
6 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Noth­ing Wrong With AI Weapons

kbog28 Aug 2017 2:52 UTC
17 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Set­ting our salary based on the world’s av­er­age GDP per capita

Joey26 Aug 2017 19:57 UTC
34 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Open Thread #38

WillPearson22 Aug 2017 10:01 UTC
5 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

How should we as­sess very un­cer­tain and non-testable stuff?

John G. Halstead17 Aug 2017 13:24 UTC
18 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Suffer­ing in An­i­mals vs. Humans

Brian_Tomasik15 Aug 2017 0:03 UTC
20 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

Biose­cu­rity as an EA Cause Area

EA Global13 Aug 2017 7:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Risks from Ad­vanced AI

EA Global13 Aug 2017 7:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 4/​4: Es­ti­mat­ing Cost-Effec­tive­ness vs Other Causes; What EA Should Do Next

MichaelPlant12 Aug 2017 18:03 UTC
8 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

What does (and doesn’t) AI mean for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

EA Global12 Aug 2017 7:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Lo­cal Group Sup­port Overview: CEA, EAF and LEAN

Richenda11 Aug 2017 22:07 UTC
19 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Claire Za­bel: Biose­cu­rity as an EA cause area

EA Global11 Aug 2017 15:31 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 3/​4: Policy Sugges­tions, Tractabil­ity and Neglectedess

MichaelPlant11 Aug 2017 15:17 UTC
8 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: Do­ing good together

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Will MacAskill: Clos­ing talk (2017)

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Lewis Bol­lard: Global farm an­i­mal welfare opportunities

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Spencer Green­berg: So­cial sci­ence as a lens on effec­tive char­ity — re­sults from four new studies

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Jose Valle, Ge­or­gia Ray, Ju­lia Wise, Malo Bour­gon, Jonathan Court­ney, Se­bas­tian Joy, & Kel­sey Mulc­ahy: Light­ning talks

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Bruce Friedrich & Paul Shapiro: Fireside chat (2017)

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

William Mar­shall: Lu­nar colony

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ofir Re­ich: Cen­ter for Effec­tive Global Action

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Kerry Vaughan, Nick Beck­stead, and Lewis Bol­lard: EA Funds

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Holden Karnofsky: Fireside chat (2017)

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Dun­can Sa­bien, Miranda Dixon-Luinen­burg, Malo Bour­gon, & Cath­leen Kil­gallen: Get­ting things done

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)